hui
/ˈhʉː.iː/
"hui" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,115) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,115
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Māori social gathering or assembly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hui · hui · English
hui · rank #22,115 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,115
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH horsemen
Nearest frequency peer: horsemen (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “hui”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Hillsborough
Hillsborough
77,890 corpus weight
- horsemen
horsemen
77,887 corpus weight
- hui
hui
77,886 corpus weight
- Hutton
Hutton
77,885 corpus weight
- illuminating
illuminating
77,883 corpus weight
- indebted
indebted
77,882 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “hui” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hui |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhʉː.iː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “hui”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hui is neighbouring look-alikes ("hv", "hut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈhʉː.iː/. Frequency #22,115 among 2,646 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hui has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hv", "hut", "hum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Māori hui. The correct English form is hui, spelled H-U-I.
Definition
- 1A Māori social gathering or assembly.
- 2A meeting to discuss plans held by an organization, especially one that considers itself progressive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] accounts of the proceedings of important huis at which Maori leaders took the initiative in discussing their educational and vocational needs […].
“I even started training as a seminarian. It lasted till I met Hana at an interchurch hui.”
Etymology
Borrowed from Māori hui.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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